A term for lack of perspective on your own contextual knowledge? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by pr06lefs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Is there a term for that phenomenon where someone gets so far into a topic that they become unaware of how much contextual knowledge they have about it?

Then they write some inscrutable technical docs, use unexplained acronyms, or tell a story about “he”, "she’ and/or “they” where you have no idea who they’re talking about.

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[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

The curse of knowledge

[-] BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Relevant XKCD

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

relevant

Relevant XKCD

Edit: is there no way to get a thumbnail to render this, can the image be found and linked to rather than page?

Edit2: can we get a bot that autoconverts links and stuff to this, people would just have to remember to input the image url not the page in which it appears

[-] zzzz@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I see the image!

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

![relevant](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity.png)

*[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/2501/)*

Use the format as given here without the backticks like this

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

uncommunicative/inarticulate
jargon
abstruse
overspecialized/hyperspecialized/overeducated
genius/crackpot/eccentric
ignorant (of their comparative knowledge to regular folks or other professionals who are noy)
lack of self-awareness
echo chamber
ivory tower (dweller)/
out of touch
élit(e|ist)
academic ;)
for talent: blindly gifted

[-] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

Expecting short inferential distances https://www.readthesequences.com/Expecting-Short-Inferential-Distances

[-] flubba86@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would say that someone is "in too deep" or something about "contextually saturated" or "contextually normalised".

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

There probably is an official term, but "bad communicator" also works.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

My best guess is the curse of knowledge or curse of expertise: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/498010/lack-of-understanding-another-persons-lack-of-understanding

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Incommunicado

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 9 months ago

'not seeing the forest through the trees'?

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